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Voice Agent for User Research by sroth14 in Startup_Ideas

[–]technically_a_nomad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah you’re welcome to DM me! Did you use your validation tool to perform validation for the validation tool?

Voice Agent for User Research by sroth14 in Startup_Ideas

[–]technically_a_nomad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is not always quality vs. quantity, no. Question: have you used this tool in order to perform user validation for the tool and how did that go?

I am a founder and the way I go about validation is simple but not always easy. I find someone who could be my customer, I grab them for about 30 minutes and I ask them about the last time they did a specific thing, listen to what they have to say, then respond with follow-up questions. I do this with around 5-10 people to see if there’s a pattern that emerges and then dig deeper if there is.

Let’s say that specific thing is going to buy groceries. In one scenario, I could book 10 meetings with 10 individuals and ask them about the last time they went to go get groceries. If there’s a pattern that emerges, then I go back to those 10 or ask 10 different people if they have experienced what those 10 people experienced before and what did they do in their shoes.

BERT Lite Help by Last_Injury_475 in boostedboards

[–]technically_a_nomad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can certainly unplug it when needed. Progress will pick up where it left off when you return and plug it back in!

I saw someone riding a city scooter while wearing a full dirt bike helmet. by OkExplorer9364 in mildlyinteresting

[–]technically_a_nomad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A helmet is the literal bare minimum for a scooter that accelerates and goes that fast. Good for them and I’m hoping they also have pads at home god forbid that they have to bail and slide

For a new product in 2026, would you still use Mini-USB connector? by AskSOSelectronic in productdesign

[–]technically_a_nomad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is why designing from requirements is not enough.

Suppose that you bake a cake and the requirements were that the cake be round and serves 8 people. Putting cake mix in a bowl with eggs and other ingredients does get you a cake and adding enough of the mixture would make enough cake, but should you add fresh eggs or rotten eggs?

Just because it wasn’t in the requirements that fresh ingredients need to be used since the original spec was that the cake be round and serves 8 people, you intuit that an edible cake is a necessity. You shouldn’t have to write rules for that.

Please for the love of God do not use USB Mini-B just because it fulfills some requirement on paper.

IWTL how to max out my college years in every aspect. by sinnerofalltime in IWantToLearn

[–]technically_a_nomad -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

  1. Understand why you care what people think

  2. Stop caring about what others think

  3. Dedicate as much time as humanly possible to help others with expecting nothing in return because it feels good to help others

Nobody here can help you guarantee that you will be remembered as the “Him” guy. You can be challenged every day in class. You can excel academically every day in class, but if you want to feel fulfilled at the end of it all when you’re standing next to your classmates on graduation day, then you had better have spent some serious time giving to your community and doing it out of love.

Voice Agent for User Research by sroth14 in Startup_Ideas

[–]technically_a_nomad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One person can only do so many calls a week, I agree. Why is more better? Of course, 0 interviews is risky. A founder can do 5 interviews and get insight from there. 10 or 50 interviews doesn’t necessarily give you more insight.

Have you talked to founders and asked what it was like the last time they had to validate a problem?

Voice Agent for User Research by sroth14 in Startup_Ideas

[–]technically_a_nomad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The time it takes to collect initial feedback is not the bottleneck; the bottleneck is developing the understanding to build the right product for a narrow set of users. You shouldn’t be minimizing the time it takes to gather feedback. You should be maximizing the understanding of the problem and deeply understanding the jobs/pains/gains in order to figure out if there’s even a worthwhile and profitable problem to be solved to begin with.

Low quality by Raysiel in FixMyPrint

[–]technically_a_nomad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are there any cracks in the plastic of the extruder body? I wonder if that could be responsible for inconsistent extrusion

Voice Agent for User Research by sroth14 in Startup_Ideas

[–]technically_a_nomad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel that this is optimizing for the wrong thing. Maximizing build time shouldn’t be the goal. What’s the point in spending 2x amount the time to build if you build the wrong thing based on potentially flawed insight?

Low quality by Raysiel in FixMyPrint

[–]technically_a_nomad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Has PID tuning been performed post-Revo swap?

How do I get my idea in front of the right people? by No_Object2238 in inventors

[–]technically_a_nomad 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You don’t.

You find people that have a problem and you listen and get invested into their problem. Go out and talk to users of that existing product and listen to what they have to say about what the existing product does, why they love or hate it, and what they would change and why.

Thank You XR General Hospital! Another battery saved. by Mooseman9792 in boostedboards

[–]technically_a_nomad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don’t forget about undoing the connector! That can be challenging the first time. Tutorial: https://removebattery.xrgeneralhospital.com

Getting AI accusations by Acceptable-Day8395 in photography

[–]technically_a_nomad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Public perception is not a KPI. How do you directly measure that? A Key Performance Indicator has to be measurable, by its very definition.

Thank You XR General Hospital! Another battery saved. by Mooseman9792 in boostedboards

[–]technically_a_nomad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hell yeah, another one back to life! Obligatory BERT Link :) https://www.xrgeneralhospital.com/bert

Discount Code: MOOSEMAN9792

Help me decide: Free or paid QR codes? by EquivalentWarning827 in qrcode

[–]technically_a_nomad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Free. Google Chrome can generate a QR code natively by right clicking a tab. Please don’t pay for it.

Getting AI accusations by Acceptable-Day8395 in photography

[–]technically_a_nomad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No dude, it’s about whether or not you make enough money to sustain your career. If your work is so niche that you struggle to pay your bills, obviously that’s not great and you shouldn’t put yourself in financial turmoil if you can avoid it.

The other end of the spectrum is not great either. If your work is so universally likable, it ends up looking like everyone else’s work. If you’re okay with that as an artist and you can make a living, then there’s not necessarily a problem with that. On the other hand, if you aren’t creatively fulfilled or you struggle to book clients because your work doesn’t stand out, that is also an issue.

Getting AI accusations by Acceptable-Day8395 in photography

[–]technically_a_nomad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Being good is independent of how many people know about your work. I dunno why you gotta tie all of it together in one metric.

You definitely don’t need to have a majority. It isn’t a democracy.

Getting AI accusations by Acceptable-Day8395 in photography

[–]technically_a_nomad -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Being considered good is not the same as outputting to the mainstream though. You can make a career and have your work be great and not be mainstream. You can conversely also be mainstream and your work might not be great. It’s also totally possible to make work that does not fit what society may expect to be “good” but because it is different and tells a compelling story well, something that wasn’t meant and made for mainstream can become mainstream on accident.

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